Following information about our reviewed, revised and revitalised efficiency programme and its overt emphasis on a coach-led strategy, we’re delighted to welcome one other vastly profitable former participant to Badminton England.
Koo Kien Keat has joined our elite efficiency programme as a Visitor Coach and can work carefully with all our athletes over the following 4 weeks to assist enhance their particular person video games.
Former Malaysian doubles star, Koo is a former world no.1 and an All England winner!
Again in 2006, Koo first paired with left-hander Tan Boon Heong and collectively they received gold on the Asian Video games in Doha as an unseeded pair – changing into the youngest ever males’s doubles pair to win an Asian Video games gold medal!
The next 12 months, the duo received the boys’s doubles on the YONEX All England Open – climbing to the highest of the world rankings with a well-known win over Chinese language pair Cai Yun and Fu Haifeng. They returned to the Last in 2011, solely to narrowly miss out on a second All England title after a close-fought defeat to Danish pair Mathias Boe and Carsten Mogensen.
Already a Commonwealth gold medalist from his males’s doubles triumph in Melbourne, Koo received double gold in Delhi in 2010 – edging out his fellow Badminton England coach Nathan Robertson in each the Combined Doubles and Males’s Doubles gold medal matches! Now he brings all that pedigree to the courtroom as a coach.
The arrival of Koo Kien Keat comes off the again of the appointment of Christinna Pedersen as Efficiency Coach – the previous Danish doubles icon, additionally a former world primary and YONEX All England Open winner, is courtside on the Nationwide Badminton Centre for one four-day week each month to offer specialist teaching experience to the programme.
And as a part of our new construction, Badminton England are within the strategy of recruiting for six new roles integral to the success of our new efficiency programme imaginative and prescient:
- Head Coach (Senior)
- Head Coach (Junior)
- Pathway Coach (Para)
- Programme Supervisor (Senior)
- Singles Coach (Senior)
- Doubles Coach (Senior)
We’d prefer to formally welcome Koo Kien Keat to Badminton England and sit up for seeing him work in shut collaboration with Nathan Robertson and all our athletes all through March.
